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Lfh Foundation Family Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.0MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$871kPhilanthropy$843kReligion$713kSocial Science$665kFood & Nutrition$421kArts & Culture$355kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $815k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$16,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TARGET ALS$500,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$175,000
GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE$100,000
GOOD COUNSEL$100,000
CEI FOUNDATION$100,000
DE LA SALLE ACADEMY$80,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$75,000
TEAK FELLOWSHIP$75,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$60,000
HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
ACUMEN$40,000
PER SCHOLAS$40,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$40,000
GRACE OUTREACH$35,000
ST VINCENT ACADEMY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $10k → 17%PRYME CORP: $5k → 9%GOOD COUNSEL: $125k → 14%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $5k → 17%GOOD COUNSEL: $100k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $100k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $75k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $60k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $54k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $50k → 14%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $40k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $35k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $35k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $15k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $75k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $75k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $75k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $35k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $35k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $32k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 47 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
28

Total granted

$7.5M
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-1%

Still filing today

47%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $708k · revenue +36%
  • GC
    GOOD COUNSEL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $564k · revenue +13%
  • TT
    THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $377k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHURCH AT HEMLOCK FARMS
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • WA
    WE ARE LIVING STONES
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School

Cristo rey brooklyn is a catholic high school partnering with families of all creeds to educate deserving young people from underserved communities to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service. by integrating a rigorous…

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8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Hellenic Classical Charter Schools - Staten Island

Hellenic classical charter school (hccs) was organized to prepare all students intellectually, socially and emotionally, so they may gain entry to and succeed in the best high schools in new york city.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pryme Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEI FOUNDATION: $665,000 · OtherCEI FOUNDATIONGILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE: $665,000 · OtherGILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $590,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREAD TO LEAD INC: $540,000 · OtherREAD TO LEAD INCTARGET ALS: $500,000 · OtherTARGET ALSIndividual grant recipient: $290,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW LIFE: $230,000 · Other+56 more: $1,334,300 · Other+56 moreGOOD COUNSEL INC: $563,500 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL IN…THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $377,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOW…ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $160,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO …SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $65,100 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human Services+3 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $370,000 · EducationDE LA SALLE …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $340,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…GRACE OUTREACH INC: $140,000 · EducationGRACE OUTREA…HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationHARRISBURG A…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACAD…+2 more: $30,000 · EducationROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $707,500 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA…Jonas Philanthropies Inc: $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $275,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $180,000 · InternationalCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $235,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $78,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $33,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $210,000 · Health+2 more: $6,500 · Health
Other$4,814,300Human Services$1,260,600Education$1,000,000Philanthropy$852,500International$455,000Arts & Culture$348,000Health$216,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $707,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $563,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $540,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $377,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $370,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $340,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $160,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE OUTREACH INC: $140,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $65,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJonas Philanthropies Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEat Better Live Better Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY OF OUR LADY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPryme Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBrothers for Life: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelray Beach Pickleball Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
  • Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Christians Reaching Out To Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jonas Philanthropies Inc ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Achelis & Bodman …Mother Cabrini Health…Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Morgan Stanley Founda…Community Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLPNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lfh Foundation Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lfh Foundation Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton: 2% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Lfh Foundation Family Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lfh Foundation Family Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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